Poor Things

In London, Godwin Baxter is a scientist and surgeon of some renown, although some of his students believe him to be a literal monster in the vein of Dr. Frankenstein's. He has as his ward Bella Baxter, an infant literally in the reanimated corpse of a young woman. Godwin acknowledges to those in his circle that he doesn't know her history before she came into his life, and to protect her and himself he keeps her confined to his compound. As science is his life, he hires one of his students, Max McCandles, to monitor Bella's developmental progress but Max is unaware of exactly what he is walking into in accepting the position. Upon learning of Bella's true circumstances, at least as Godwin knows, he buys into who he represents in Bella's life with Godwin's blessing and Godwin makes legal arrangements for Bella's future again, to protect both her and himself. As such, egotistical barrister Duncan Wedderburn enters their lives, unaware of Bella's background except what he was asked to draw up for her legally. Falling under Bella's spell, Duncan, with Godwin's knowledge, whisks her away outside of the compound, thus exposing Bella to another developmental process, steered largely by Duncan and the world to which he introduces her.